And eek alone by hem-selve.
O, many a thousand tymes twelve
Saugh I eek of these pardoneres,
Currours, and eek messangeres,
With boistes crammed ful of lyes
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As ever vessel was with [lyes].
And as I alther-fastest wente
Aboute, and dide al myn entente
Me for to pleye and for to lere,